ie us highways Routing core-periphery small world milgram- separate clusters with a few bridges between them scale-free barabasi- connectivity drops off following an exponential curve long tail power law distribution curve centrality degree centrality indegree connections coming in outdegree connections going out betweenness centrality closeness centrality density = edges / nodes*(nodes-1) / Distance shortest path distance = number of hops * cost to hop (physical distance, energy, transmission speed, etc) Olia Lialina 1998 Will-n-Testament will.teleportacia.org dijkstra's algorithm solves single-source shortest path Betweenness centrality nodes that occur on many shortest paths between other nodes have higher betweenness than those that do not broker role contolling what flows / does not flow bottleneck. closeness centrality less jumps to get to every other node means more closeness transivity for three nodes, if there are bidirectional edges heuristic Sanction of the Victim - 2008 Ann Raynd: "the willingness of the good to suffer at the hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the 'sin' of creating values." two behaviours on one topology (fully connected) 1) a flocking simulation that occurs both within the individual computers and among them a) Boyds algorithm plus collisions b) frequency / phase of pulse trains 2) a distributed denial of service DDoS attack on the router a) exponential usage of resources b) exposes inconsistencies across network udp network "democratic" flocking sim "anarchic" DDoS attack a sonification of itself udp as form and content simultaneously not a transparent medium both figure and ground notating Sanction of the Victim as a 'meta-score' distilation into an event "play silences of various durations. if you make a sound, you have made a mistake. make mistakes" realizations of this score include this vocal piece solo for amplified window notating as 'infra-score' focus on realization as artifact notate the specifics of one area what are the blemishes? the application to 'spirit of the piece', etc, may be disregarded branches of interpretation